Store your experience once and reuse it
Keep your work history in one structured record, so the next application starts from what you have already written down.
Five free credits every month, renewing automatically. No card needed to start.
Every application asks you for the same things. The dates of the job you left in 2019. The name of the college. The three skills you always list and the two you always forget. So you open an old CV and copy out of it, and by the fourth application of the evening you are guessing at a month. A career profile is that information kept in one structured record instead of scattered across six documents and an email attachment. Every CV, cover letter and piece of career advice Career Auntie generates can read from it, which means the remembering happens once. It is the one part of the product you fill in yourself rather than generate.
Six sections, weighted out of 100
The profile carries a completeness percentage. It is arithmetic about the record, not a verdict on you. Six sections score, with fixed weights:
- Work experience, 28 points. One role at minimum, with employer, dates and what you did.
- Professional summary, 17. The paragraph at the top of a CV, in your words.
- Education, 17. At least one entry: a degree, a diploma or school.
- Skills, 16. Three or more distinct skills, counted across your core list, your roles and your projects together, so a skill named on a job is not typed twice.
- Contact details, 11. At least two of phone, location and LinkedIn.
- Job-specific skills, 11. Every role tagged with its own skills, not just the profile as a whole.
That last one is all or nothing. One untagged role and the whole 11 stays unearned.
Certifications, languages, projects and volunteering all have a home in the profile and none of them score. Plenty of strong candidates hold no certifications, and a rule that capped them under 100 for ever was wrong.
When typing it all out again is the reason you stop
"I applied for four jobs on Sunday and never started the fifth." The fifth advert was not worse. You had run out of patience for the form, and a profile answers the form rather than the advert.
"The only record I have of the 2018 job is a CV I cannot find." Import once and those dates live somewhere you can edit them, rather than inside whichever PDF you happened to open last.
"I am applying for two quite different sorts of role." Put everything in, including the parts that feel irrelevant. The profile is the full record, and each generation picks from it against the advert in front of it, so a warehouse job from 2016 can sit there quietly until the week it matters.
Building it once, then keeping it current
- Import from a CV, free the first time. Upload a PDF or a Word .docx, or paste up to 50,000 characters. Career Auntie reads it into the right fields: roles, dates, education, skills and the rest. A scanned PDF will not work, because there is no text in it to read, and you are told so rather than left waiting.
- Fill what the import could not know. The completeness bar names what is missing in plain words, such as "Add at least 2 contact details", so nothing is left to guess at.
- Tag skills role by role. The part people skip, and the part that earns its keep. A generation that knows which skills belong to which employer puts the right evidence beside the right job, not everything into one list at the top.
- Generate from it. On the CV and cover letter forms, the profile replaces pasting a CV in. The advert changes every time. Your history does not.
- Refresh it when your CV moves on. Months later, import a newer CV. Career Auntie compares it against what you hold and lists the proposed additions, edits and removals, each with a tick box. Nothing is replaced until you say so, and a removal only appears when the newer CV shows the entry gone.
A profile sitting at 72, and where the other 28 is
Example
What came across from the import
[Your name] imported a CV into an empty profile. Three roles arrived with employers and dates, two education entries, and nine skills in the core list. The phone number and the town were on the CV. The LinkedIn address was not, and neither was a summary, because that CV opened with a bulleted profile box rather than a paragraph.
What the bar shows
| Section | Weight | State |
|---|---|---|
| Work experience | 28 | Filled, three roles |
| Professional summary | 17 | Missing |
| Education | 17 | Filled, two entries |
| Skills | 16 | Filled, nine skills |
| Contact details | 11 | Filled, phone and location |
| Job-specific skills | 11 | Missing, two roles untagged |
Completeness reads 72%. Underneath it, two lines in plain English: "Add a professional summary" and "Add skills to 2 roles: Customer Service Adviser at a builders' merchant, Sales Assistant at a 40-person department store".
What one more section changes
Writing the summary is four sentences of work and moves the number from 72 to 89. It is also the section a reader sees first on a generated CV, so it is worth spending the four sentences on.
Tagging the two remaining roles takes it to 100, and neither role needs a new fact. The skills are already implied by the bullets underneath them: complaints handling, stock systems, cash reconciliation. Tagging only tells Career Auntie which employer each one belongs to.
Why 89 sits there for a fortnight
Because job-specific skills is all or nothing. One role tagged out of three scores exactly what none tagged scores. The number does not creep up as you work through them, which looks broken and is not: it moves the moment the last role is done.
The parts it leaves to you
The percentage is Career Auntie's own count of how much of the record is filled in. No employer sees it, and no recruiter is measured against it. A profile at 100 is not a stronger candidate than one at 72, it is a more complete form.
The profile is not a document either. There is nothing in it you can send. To get something an employer can read, you generate a CV or a cover letter from it, against one specific advert.
It will not read a scan or a photograph of a printed CV: there is no text in either to read.
And nothing here goes anywhere. Career Auntie does not apply for jobs on your behalf, from the profile or from anything else.
Free to build, one credit to refresh
Building a profile costs nothing. Typing into it is free, editing it is free, and the first import from a CV is free too, so a profile built from scratch never touches your credit balance.
The charge starts only when there is something to protect. Refreshing a profile that already holds roles or education against a newer CV costs one credit, and you still see every proposed change before any of it is applied. Every account gets five free credits a month, renewing automatically, with no card needed to start.
Common questions
Do I have to build a profile to use Career Auntie?
No. Every tool takes a pasted CV or an upload instead. A profile tends to pay for itself around the third application, at the point where you notice you are copying the same dates out of the same PDF again. You can start one by importing the CV you already have, which is free the first time.
Can I edit what the import brings in?
Yes, every field of it. The import is a starting point, not a lock. Roles, dates, bullet points, skills and education are all editable afterwards, and anything the CV never mentioned you can add by hand. If the parser has misread a job title or split a role in two, you fix it in place.
What does refreshing from a newer CV actually change?
Career Auntie compares the newer CV against the profile you already hold and lists what it proposes: entries to add, fields to update, and occasionally an entry to remove. Each proposal has a tick box and nothing is applied until you confirm. A removal only appears when the CV positively shows the entry has gone.
Does the completeness number affect my chances?
No. It counts how much of your own record is filled in, across six weighted sections, and it is never shown to an employer. Treat it as a checklist rather than a mark. It tells you what a generation would be missing if you ran one today, and nothing at all about how a recruiter would read you.
Can one profile serve two different kinds of job?
Yes, and it works better if it does. Put in the roles that feel irrelevant as well. Each generation reads the whole profile against one advert and selects what answers that advert, so an old job can stay in the record without turning up on every CV you send.